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Strange Tentfellows Muammar Gaddafi was the Saddam Hussein of his day; America's Public Enemy No. 1. Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping...
...Spanish police reconnected with him through dumb luck. A bomb that didn't explode on March 11 was connected to a cell phone whose SIM card was tracked back to Zougam's shop. Spanish press reports say he purchased a whole box of them recently, along with 14 cell phones. In a thorough search of his shop, police reportedly found a piece of plastic broken from the casing of the cell phone found with the unexploded bomb...
...then we suddenly learned that H Bomb, the proposed campus magazine on sex and sexuality, had been awarded a $2,000 grant from the council. We support the mission of this newly-founded publication—but we found it difficult to see the fairness of the grant application process in this case. After inquiring with council representatives, we were given an answer that boiled down to a simple assertion: that H Bomb would have an unusually large impact on an under-examined area of student life. This is true enough, but isn’t it also true...
...Bomb may well deserve a substantial grant, but what of publications with records like the one Cinematic has established in such a short time? The only record H Bomb has established thus far is to make the news—fairly or not—as a University-sponsored “porn” magazine. If Cinematic’s accomplishments are not significant enough for the representatives of the student body at Harvard, while H Bomb garners such disproportionate funds, then we feel extremely frustrated and distanced from the body that is supposed to represent...
...Bomb may well be sold to students and not freely distributed. If the publication is actively read by 4,000 students—the assumption that the council made in its grant evaluation—then one would presume that the sales would bring this publication a significant revenue that would make the exorbitant grant even less justified...